India encourages having more children.

VHO - Several states in India are encouraging people to have more children due to concerns about declining birth rates and an aging population.

India is promoting larger family sizes to combat its declining birth rate.

Although India is currently the world's most populous country, its declining birth rate has raised concerns about the pace of population aging in the future, prompting proposals to encourage families to have more children, including financial support and incentive policies.

India may be the world's most populous country with 1.42 billion people, but it also faces challenges such as high youth unemployment rates.

Nevertheless, some allies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi are pushing for larger family sizes to counter the declining birth rate.

Although the United Nations forecasts that India's population will continue to grow for another four decades, peaking at around 1.7 billion, some policymakers argue that the shift toward smaller family sizes needs to begin now, including with government financial support.

The country's total fertility rate (TFR) fell to 2 during the government's 2019-2021 survey period; down from 3.4 in 1992-1993, due to the increasing use of contraception and rising educational attainment among women.

According to government estimates, an average of 2.1 is needed to maintain a stable population size.

Authorities in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh announced last weekend that they will provide a one-time cash payment of 30,000 rupees (US$311) for the third child and 40,000 rupees for the fourth child for each family that has a baby.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu said that declining birth rates in many countries are leading to an aging population and putting pressure on the economy.

"In the past, we did a lot of work on family planning. Now, in this changing context, we believe that children are always a precious asset and encourage families to have more children," Chandrababu Naidu emphasized.

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